When the rulers of on line commentary site To the Source saw my piece ” Homo Sapiens, Get Lost ” in NRO about the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an idea. They asked me to write a piece for TTS , using the same Brave New World analogy as . . . . Continue Reading »
So lovers of freedom are all over the president for three reasons. First, his enormous expansion of the reach of the national government will produce the schoolmarmish soft despotism of apathetic dependents feared by Tocqueville. To some extent that’s undeniably the intention of . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes the truth really hurts:Piraro’s views are whacky but his daily cartoon is one of the best out there. This one really hit my funny . . . . Continue Reading »
When the rulers of To the Source saw my piece “Homo Sapiens, Get Lost” in NRO about the the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an idea. They asked me to write a piece for TTS, using the same Brave New World analogy as a launching pad that I . . . . Continue Reading »
This I did late last night in a very worthwhile chat with Scott and Mark of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Have a listen. . . . . Continue Reading »
Lately I’ve run across some items not marketed with religious purposes in mind, which nevertheless seem full of possibilities. Take this, for example: That’s right: Glow-in-the-Dark Body Cream from American Science and Surplus. They suggest using it as “the ultimate bike-safety . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Scruton’s written a book on beauty, in case you hadn’t heard. Here’s a nice little review, which frames the beauty question evocatively enough in terms of beauty’s relation, or antagonism, to kitsch. And so I ask: if beauty is the promise of happiness, is the problem . . . . Continue Reading »
Marc C. Taylor, chairman of the religion department at Columbia, wants to “end the university as we know it.” But he wants to do it wrong: “The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex . . . . Continue Reading »
Overall, I have been impressed by the Obama Administration’s handling of the swine flu pandemic, which as these things go, does not appear to be Armageddon. (I am sure the Deep Ecologists are disappointed.) Part of the reason the government was so prepared, according to President Obama, is . . . . Continue Reading »
Twitter has officially jumped the shark : The leader of Ireland’s four million Roman Catholics has urged social network users to start sending daily prayers by text, Twitter or e-mail. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, twitter or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady . . . . Continue Reading »
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